[R] data frame manipulation with conditions

[Arnaud Gaboury]

TY Elai for your answer. One solution has been given earlier in this list by Sarah Goslee and William Dunlap.

Arnaud Gaboury
 
A2CT2 Ltd.


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Sent: vendredi 24 février 2012 20:14
To: A2CT2 Trading
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Subject: Re: [R] data frame manipulation with conditions

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 8:11 AM, A2CT2 Trading <trading at a2ct2.com> wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> n00b question, but still can't find any easy answer.
>
> Here is a df:
>
>> df<-data.frame(cbind(x=c("AA","BB","CC","AA"),y=1:4))

# No, your y is a factor
 str(df)
'data.frame':	4 obs. of  2 variables:
 $ x: Factor w/ 3 levels "AA","BB","CC": 1 2 3 1  $ y: Factor w/ 4 levels "1","2","3","4": 1 2 3 4

# You want to remove the cbind
> df<-data.frame(x=c("AA","BB","CC","AA"),y=1:4)
> str(df)
'data.frame':	4 obs. of  2 variables:
 $ x: Factor w/ 3 levels "AA","BB","CC": 1 2 3 1  $ y: int  1 2 3 4

> I want to modify this df this way :
>  if df$x=="AA" then df$y=df$y*10
>  if df$x=="BB" then df$y=df$y*25
>
> and so on with other conditions.
>

 df$y<- df$y * c(10,25,.5)[df$x]
[1] 10.0 50.0  1.5 40.0
 # 1*10 2*25 3*.5 4*10

HTH

Elai

> TY for any help.
>
> Trading
>
> A2CT2 Ltd.
>
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